Author

Jonathan Fink is an associate professor and the director of Creative Writing at the University of West Florida, where he also edits Panhandler Magazine.  His poems and essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry, New England Review, TriQuarterly, Slate, Witness, the Southern Review, Southwest Review, and Virginia Quarterly Review, among other publications. He has received the Editors’ Prize in Poetry from the Missouri Review and fellowships and scholarships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Florida Division of Cultural Affairs and Emory University, among other institutions. Financial support for “The Dreamers” was provided by a grant from the University of West Florida’s Office of Research and Sponsored Programs.